The Court of Arbitration for Sport has granted Chelsea's request to suspend their two-year transfer ban pending a final decision into their case.

Chelsea were handed a two year ban by UEFA for the Gael Kakuta situation, Chelsea have appealed to the CAS and the statement released today is as follows:

''The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has granted the request for a stay filed by Chelsea Football Club Ltd and Mr Gaël Kakuta in relation to the decision taken by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber on 27 August 2009.

''The FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber imposed, inter alia, a restriction of four months' ineligibility on Mr Gaël Kakuta, and Chelsea Football Club Ltd was banned from registering any new players, either nationally or internationally, for the next two complete, consecutive registration periods. Such sanctions are now stayed until the CAS renders its final decision in this matter.''

This is great news for the club. If we need to, we can now strengthen in January as we lose players to the African Nations Cup.. But the thing is do we really need anyone else?